“The bus currently isn’t being used as an intervention for chronic absenteeism, and maybe it should be. We could optimize these city bus routes to be as effective as possible,” he said. “It seems like an easy place to cut and save money, but perhaps if you could design these routes in ways to get kids to school and reduce student absenteeism, maybe [the transportation costs] would even out.” Read full article in Education Week by Sarah Sparks
Feb 05